Gigabyte Z87X-D3H RAID SETUP?

Trojan Horse

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Hi,

I have an SSD and 2x 120gb seagate barrucudas.

I want to use the 2 seagate on RAID to double performance and record video to that.

I have the Gigabyte Z87X-D3H motherboard and can only set RAID for entire SATA (1-6), and still can't figure out how to configure it anyway, manual says I have to select INTEL RAPID STORAGE MANAGER... can't find that!

I want to only use RAID for sata 0 and 1 (my seagate hard drives) and use AHCI for my SSD.

How can I do this?

Thanks
 
Set the SATA controller to RAID and save and exit.

When you reboot the RAID controller boot screen appears and you press CTRL+I to enter it.

Create the RAID setup you want and what disks are to be part of this array.
 
Hi thanks

Figured it out myself after a long time xD.

Ah damn it now my Windows 7 has to be reinstalled so I can get AHCI.

Is the performance boost in AHCI from RAID worth it? The SSD is not in raid.
 
I'm assuming windows is on your SSD which in't raided? If so you don't have to re-install. There is an AHCI driver you install, go into bios, change to AHCI and when you boot back into windows it updates it's driver without a re-install. There's hundreds of guides on the net if this is your situation.

Although after reading about my new gigabyte mobo purchase this morning gigabytes app centre software allows you to transfer to AHCI at the click of a button and reboot.
 
you have to use raid for all the drives

just don't include the ssd into the raid array

you cant use raid/ahci together its one or the other so set to raid first and do a clean install of windows

once done press ctrl and I and setup the raid 0 array for the two Seagate hdd's and don't include the ssd
 
i am using raid and ahci together?

i followd someones regedit guide to change the value of storahci or somethign from 3 to 0, did that, booted up in AHCI and am using a RAID array + AHCI SSD

:)
 
yes because raid also contains ahci drivers

but you can only choose raid to raid with,choosing ahci on its own won't enable raid
 
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